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Fortune blinds men when she does not wish them to withstand the violence of her onslaughts.


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CHARLES MONTESQUIEU There is no one, says another, whom fortune does not visit once in his life; but when she does not f...
CHARLES DE MONTESQUIEU When Fortune flatters, she does it to betray
PUBLILIUS SYRUS When Fortune flatters, she does it to betray.
SYRUS (PUBLILIUS SYRUS) It isn't often that Aunt Dahlia lets her angry passions rise, but when she does, strong men climb tr...
P.G. WODEHOUSE When Fortune means to men most good, She looks upon them with a threatening eye. -King John. Act ii...
WILLIAM SHAKESPEARE A great writer reveals the truth even when he or she does not wish to.
TOM BISSELL Envy blinds men and makes it impossible for them to think clearly.
MALCOLM X When freedom does not have a purpose, when it does not wish to know anything about the rule of law e...
POPE JOHN PAUL II She does the same reliable job you'd expect her to do. ... She has a track record that is long and s...
LEONARD MALTIN Commerce is one of the daughters of Fortune, inconsistent and deceitful as her mother. she chooses h...
BEN JOHNSTON I think it's not a femme fatale when someone is not doing it to manipulate men or be like a blac...
SALMA HAYEK I wish she had half a clue what seeing that happy face does for me. I can't quite explain it to myse...
MELYSSA WINCHESTER Woman does not forget she needs the fecundator, she does not forget that everything that is born of ...
ANAIS NIN The ultimate measure of a person is not her mistakes or accomplishments, but what she does with them...
LIZA M. WIEMER When life does not find a singer to sing her heart she produces a philosopher to speak her mind.
KAHLIL GIBRAN Be not arrogant when fortune smiles, or dejected when she frowns.
ARISTOTLE The female warrior knows how to fight without violence. She knows when not to raise her sword, but i...
RIITTA KLINT Fireproof does not mean the fire will never come, it only means when it comes you'll be able to with...
OLASOT When life life does not find a singer to sing her heat, she produces a philosopher to speak her mind...
KHALIL GIBRAN When life life does not find a singer to sing her heart, she produces a philosopher to speak her min...
KAHLIL GIBRAN She makes her hand hard with labour, and her heart soft with pity: and when winter evenings fall e...
SIR THOMAS OVERBURY A mother only does her children harm if she makes them the only concern of her life.
W. SOMERSET MAUGHAM She's at the top of her game. She has trained excellent, and she does well when her races are spaced...
JEFF BONDE Ruin, eldest daughter of Zeus, she blinds us all, that fatal madness—she with those delicate feet ...
HOMER Time and time again, violence and the threat of violence has reaped dividends for the men of violenc...
IAN PAISLEY She racked her brain for words scathing enough to convey her opinion of their actions. When nothi...
DALLAS SCHULZE There are certainly are not so many men of large fortune in the world as there are of pretty woman t...
JANE AUSTEN But there certainly are not so many men of large fortune in the world as there are pretty women to d...
JANE AUSTEN Fortune, seeing that she could not make fools wise, has made them lucky.
MICHEL DE MONTAIGNE A woman does not spend all her time in buying things; she spends part of it in taking them back
EDGAR WATSON HOWE Pride does not wish to owe and vanity does not wish to pay.
FRANCOIS DE LA ROCHEFOUCAULD Pride does not wish to owe and vanity does not wish to pay.
FRANCOIS DE LA ROCHEFOUCAULD Few men have virtue to withstand the highest bidder.
GEORGE WASHINGTON I do not wish them to have power over men, but over themselves.
MARY WOLLSTONECRAFT SHELLEY Chance is perhaps the pseudonym of God when he does not wish to sign his work.
ANATOLE FRANCE A shoe that is too large is apt to trip one, and when too small, to pinch the feet. So it is with th...
HORACE Why does a woman want equality with men when she is already much better than a man? Is she not a mot...
DEBASISH MRIDHA I grew up with gang violence. They tried to suck me in, but I wouldn't do it. I kinda got sucked in ...
DEMAUNDRAY WOOLRIDGE There are unknown forces in nature; when we give ourselves wholly to her, without reserve, she lends...
AUGUSTE RODIN I hate the term 'arm candy.' But, look, a woman's figure is a beautiful thing, and if sh...
BRUCE FORSYTH When she performs ... all eyes are on her. She has these signature skills that she does on the floor...
DIANE ROBERTS Few men have virtue to withstand the highest bidder.

GEORGE WASHINGTON I do not wish them [women] to have power over men; but over themselves.
MARY WOLLSTONECRAFT She does a lot of things on the floor that might not only be scoring. She's our team leader, she kee...
CARYN JAROCKI When a woman is convinced that she can stop the violence in her marriage, her stubborn determination...
SUSAN WEITZMAN It's her heart and her willingness to push it when it hurts. Not many others can do what she does. I...
KAREN LUTZKE If a woman possesses manly virtues one should run away from her; and if she does not possess them sh...
FRIEDRICH NIETZSCHE [The wives of powerful noblemen] must be highly knowledgeable about government, and wise – in fact...
CHRISTINE DE PIZAN She who invented words, and yet does not speak; she who brings dreams and visions, yet does not slee...
CATHERYNNE M. VALENTE She is a lady.She takes care of herself both physically and emotionally. She tries to look nice, be ...
DR ANIL KUMAR SINHA Fortune is no real thing.
But men who cannot bear what comes to them
In Nature's way, give the...
MENANDER Fortune is like glass; she breaks when she is brightest.
UNKNOWN So I watch her work and put all her energy, all her force, all herself, all is inside her work. Does...
JINAT REHANA BEGUM Beware of her fair hair, for she excels All women in the magic of her locks; And when she wind...
JOHANN WOLFGANG VON GOETHE Every single thing she does motivates me. I guess not every single thing, but at least on the tennis...
VENUS WILLIAMS Thinking ahead was too frightening to consider. Is this what it means to be a pirate? she wondered a...
MATT TOMERLIN She can do anything she sets her mind to. She feels she can do anything. She probably wants to try d...
KASEY ZACHARIAS Tell me Jesse, does she sigh when you kiss her too
MEG CABOT The worthless bride does not know her Husband Lord she is deluded, forgetting her Husband Lord, she ...
GURU NANAK She'd make them wish they were never Alison DiLaurentis's friends in the first place. She didn't kno...
SARA SHEPARD Be prepared to grab her when fortune comes your way.
MUHAMMED HAIDER She is a little girl. Her playful spirit is very much alive when she's not working. Even when she is...
ELISABETH SHUE At last, she makes her choice. She turns around, drops her head, and walks toward a horizon she cann...
KHALED HOSSEINI What the culture of get rich quick does to our people is young men only wish to do prestigious work
SUNDAY ADELAJA She was wrestling at 112 early in the season. She's only lost to kids who've been to the state tourn...
GLENN HARTMAN Morgan does that basically every game. We put her on their point guard and we tell her to pressure w...
CONNIE ALLEN Who does not know that kings and rulers sprang from men who were ignorant of God, who assumed becaus...
POPE GREGORY VII The queen of diamonds wears her rings A life of fortune material things The queen of hearts has a bi...
RACHEL-ERIKA HENDERSON Fortune pays you sometimes for the intensity of her favors by the shortness of their duration. She s...
BALTASAR GRACIAN Sometimes a woman's love of being loved gets the better of her conscience, and though she is agonize...
THOMAS HARDY Money does not change men, it only unmasks them.
MME. RICCOBONI The pursuit of truth does not permit violence on one's opponent.
MAHATMA GANDHI If a nation does not plan her future, she is planning to fail
SUNDAY ADELAJA God gives good times and bad times, but He does not wish us to bemoan and bewail the bad times, but ...
PATRICK SüSKIND Fortune can, for her pleasure, fools advance,
And toss them on the wheels of Chance.
JUVENAL Dolorita Hunsickle says that the chipmunks tell your fortune if you catch them but I never did. She ...
NEIL GAIMAN Then I saw that she was defiled, that they took both one way, / And that she increased her whoredoms...
BIBLE Sadly, the signals that allow men and women to find the partners who most please them are scrambled ...
NAOMI WOLF A woman must make her fortune before she is 30; or work after she is 30; or get married.
ANNA HELD But to the slave mother New Year's day comes laden with peculiar sorrows. She sits on her cold c...
HARRIET ANN JACOBS [Sister Venus said] every single thing ... I guess not every single thing, but at least on the tenni...
SERENA WILLIAMS She herself is a haunted house. She does not possess herself; her ancestors sometimes come and peer ...
ANGELA CARTER When a girl marries, she exchanges the attentions of all the other men of her acquaintance for the i...
HELEN ROWLAND As for Celaena," he said again, "you do not have the right to wish she were not what she is. The onl...
SARAH J. MAAS When Fortune smiles, I smile to think how quickly she will frown.
ROBERT SOUTHWELL When Fortune smiles, I smile to think how quickly she will frown
ROBERT SOUTHWELL Arleen’s children did not always have a home. They did not always have food. Arleen was not always...
MATTHEW DESMOND O fortune, fortune! All men call thee fickle.
WILLIAM SHAKESPEARE Harness the imagination: Sometimes curbing her, sometimes giving her rein, for she is the whole of h...
BALTASAR GRACIáN As of right now, I'm more worried about the defensive end. Offense comes when you play good defense,...
DANI KUBIK Materialized in a female body, with a life of an ordinary person, through centuries, She ascends to ...
NATAšA NUIT PANTOVIć Donna does not stop at her own personal commitment. She has the ability to inspire others.
MARIANNE VIRGILI Minds me of a married woman who was very proud of her virtue. She slept with other men only when her...
ROBERT A. HEINLEIN When a woman is romantically subdued, all she does at that moment is under the influence of her desi...
MICHAEL BASSEY JOHNSON And I understand my sisters when they say every woman has a story that's been told a maxim of one so...
MARK GONZALES Not many men have both good fortune and good sense.
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LIVY Nowhere are our calculations more frequently upset than in war.
LIVY In difficult and desperate cases, the boldest counsels are the safest.
LIVY Persevere in virtue and diligence.
LIVY Not many men have both good fortune and good sense.
LIVY Events of great consequence often spring from trifling circumstances.
LIVY In grave difficulties, and with little hope, the boldest measures are the safest.
LIVY History is the best medicine for a sick mind, for in history you have a record of the infinite varie...
LIVY No wickedness proceeds on any grounds of reason.
LIVY We fear things in proportion to our ignorance of them.
LIVY In great straits and when hope is small, the boldest counsels are the safest.
LIVY It is better that a guilty man should not be brought to trial than that he should be acquitted.
LIVY Rome has grown since its humble beginnings that it is now overwhelmed by its own greatness.
LIVY It is easy at any moment to surrender a large fortune; to build one up is a difficult and an arduous...
LIVY A fraudulent intent, however carefully concealed at the outset, will generally, in the end, betray i...
LIVY Toil and pleasure, dissimilar in nature, are nevertheless united by a certain natural bond.
LIVY He will have true glory who despises it.
LIVY Men's minds are too ready to excuse guilt in themselves.
LIVY There is nothing man will not attempt when great enterprises hold out the promise of great rewards.
LIVY This above all makes history useful and desirable; it unfolds before our eyes a glorious record of e...
LIVY Under the influence of fear, which always leads men to take a pessimistic view of things, they magni...
LIVY All things will be clear and distinct to the man who does not hurry; haste is blind and improvident.
LIVY We can endure neither our vices nor the remedies for them.
LIVY The old Romans all wished to have a king over them because they had not yet tasted the sweetness of ...
LIVY Men are slower to recognize blessings than misfortunes.
LIVY Truth, they say, is but too often in difficulties, but is never finally suppressed.
LIVY Now Brutus had deliberately assumed a mask to hide his true character.  When he learned of the murd...
LIVY Envy, like fire, soars upward. [Lat., Invidiam, tamquam ignem, summa petere.]
TITUS LIVY Men's minds are too ingenious in palliating guilt in themselves. [Lat., Ingenia humana sunt ad sua...
TITUS LIVY In great straits and when hope is small, the boldest counsels are the safest.
TITUS LIVY We survive on adversity and perish in ease and comfort.
TITUS LIVY Adversity reminds men of religion. [Lat., Adverse res admonent religionum.]
TITUS LIVY Men's plans should be regulated by the circumstances, not circumstances by the plans. [Lat., Cons...
TITUS LIVY In difficult and hopeless situations the boldest plans are the safest.
TITUS LIVY Treachery, though at first very cautious, in the end betrays itself. [Lat., Ipsa se fraus, etiams...
TITUS LIVY Present sufferings seem far greater to men than those they merely dread. [Lat., Graviora quae pat...
TITUS LIVY Necessity is the last and strongest weapon. [Lat., Necessitas ultimum et maximum telum est.]
TITUS LIVY It is easy at any moment to resign the possession of a great fortune; to acquire it is difficult an...
TITUS LIVY No man likes to be surpassed by those of this own level. [Lat., A proximis quisque minime anteire ...
TITUS LIVY A woman's mind is affected by the meanest gifts. [Lat., Parvis mobilis rebus animus muliebris.]
TITUS LIVY Experience is the teacher of fools. [Lat., Stultorum eventus magister est.]
TITUS LIVY It takes a long time to bring excellence to maturity.
TITUS LIVY The worst kind of shame is being ashamed of frugality or poverty. [Lat., Pessimus quidem pudor vel...
TITUS LIVY As soon as she (woman) begins to be ashamed of what she ought not, she will not be ashamed of what ...
TITUS LIVY In difficult and hopeless situations the boldest plans are the safest.
TITUS LIVY Rashness is not fortunate
TITUS LIVY The real power behind whatever success I have now was something I found within myself - something th...
TITUS LIVY Superstition brings the gods into even the smallest matters
TITUS LIVY Events of great consequence often spring from trifling circumstances.
TITUS LIVY Envy is blind, and she has no other quality than that of detracting from virtue
TITUS LIVY It takes a long time to bring excellence to maturity.
TITUS LIVY Men's minds are too ready to excuse guilt in themselves
TITUS LIVY Adversity makes men remember God
TITUS LIVY Truth is often eclipsed but never extinguished
TITUS LIVY Men are slower to recognize blessings than evils.
TITUS LIVY Men are seldom blessed with good fortune and good sense at the same time.
TITUS LIVY